caretaker: Happening 1 — MaxxM Studio Cave

caretaker : Happening 1

Thursday, August 1 | 8PM
agnes b
50 Howard Street
NY, NY 10013

This Happening was a night of performance curated and hosted by caretaker. In collaboration with caretaker, each artist created a unique performance in tandem with the clothing designed and built for them.

featuring:
Aminah Ibrahim
Christy Cefalu
Dan Herschlein
Devin N. Morris

show program

back and forth, Aminah Ibrahim
http://aminahibrahim.net/

Constricting and freeing, the garments simultaneously invite playfulness and contract precision. An improvisation with intention, it is a process honoring the sensuality in subtlety.
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Aminah Ibrahim is an interdisciplinary artist of Kuwaiti, Black American, and Indonesian heritage, raised in Kuwait and now living in NYC. Through anthropological and movement research, they connect performance, video, and sound to build modern mythologies Using meditative modes of improvisation, they explore the geographies of identity, body politics, mysticism and ritual transformation to find freedom in the space outside of binary. aminahibrahim.net @alrighty.aminah

Music by Jason Shelton. Brooklyn-based performer/actor/maker jasonsheltonartist.com @ichabodj

The Overview Effect, Christiana Cefalu
www.christianacefalu.com

Dan Herschlein
http://danherschlein.tv

4 Door Coup, Devin N. Morris
https://www.devinnmorris.com/

Through his mixed media paintings, photographs, writings, and videos, Baltimore-born, Brooklyn-based artist Devin N. Morris collapses personal experience, memory, and space to delicately envision new realms. The artist considers his upbringing in Baltimore and navigating the world as a black queer man in his depictions of real and imagined characters engaged in acts of kindness and care. His explorations of the domestic space, including collage and immersive environments, place the viewer inside abstracted rooms that subvert traditional values and social boundaries.

Asa Thornton and Hayley Martell (wearing caretaker)

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Photographs by Walter Wlodarczyk